The woman raised her head slightly, revealing her delicate and graceful facial features under the hood.
Kong Li took a breath of cold air, and Kong Nan shouted in shock, "Xiao Li, come back!" He took out his whisk weapon.
Kong Li and Ji Ji ran back in panic, stumbling over their left foot and right foot in panic, and the prohibition token in their hands fell to the ground. She subconsciously went to pick it up, but the prohibition token moved immediately and flew towards the woman at the entrance of the courtyard. The woman took a step closer to the courtyard.
Kong Nan ran out and pulled Kong Li behind him.
His expression was extremely guarded, but he forced a smile, "Miss Zhao Ning, I haven't seen you in Guiyuan City for a long time."
Zhao Ning's expression was as usual, as if she was really visiting friends, and she bowed her hands to them, "Long time no see, Mr. Kong, Miss Kong."
As soon as he finished speaking, the restraining order in his hand flashed, and the restraining order in the courtyard was reopened, blocking out the sounds in the courtyard.
"You!" Kong Nan felt even worse.
Zhao Ning said, "I don't want anyone to disturb me. Please don't take it off, after all..."
She smiled slightly, but it didn't reach her eyes. "It's not easy to come back alive."
At this moment, Kong Nan finally determined where the uneasiness for many days came from.
The disguise on his face has also been removed, and he is holding the whisk handle tightly. His cultivation is higher than Zhao Ning, but it does not mean that he will definitely be able to defeat the opponent.
Many times, confrontations in the same realm depend not only on the level of cultivation, but also on the power and proficiency of spells, the amount of spiritual power, control and recovery speed, the use of elixirs and talismans, etc. General Kong Nan Shouyuan However, after years of focusing on making spiritual talismans, I have rarely practiced Qigong. Otherwise, I would not have let the possessed cultivators at the fourth level of Qi training abduct my granddaughter.
"Miss Zhao Ning, we have no choice but to do many things. I know that if Miss Zhao Ning can stand here, she must be very strong. I and Xiaoli are just small people in Guiyuan City who make a living by selling talismans. Please consider the friendship between the two in the past. For your sake, let us go.”
Kong Nan glanced at Kong Li and asked Zhao Ning to hand over the storage bag in her arms, "This is the girl's storage bag. The girl's spiritual weapons have been sold. There are a total of six hundred low-grade spiritual stones. The bag There are also more than a hundred five-element talismans made by the old man, all of which are given to the girl as an apology to the girl."
Perhaps out of guilt, Kong Li did not dare to come close. She only held the storage bag three steps away from Zhao Ning. The storage bag flew back to Zhao Ning's hands. She had a pale look on her face, as if she was really going to reconcile with the two of them.
Zhao Ning did not look at the contents of the storage bag. "If it was a friendship in the past, Mr. Kong and Miss Kong were Zhao Ning's guides in Guiyuan City. Zhao Ning was extremely grateful from the bottom of her heart. Of course, many things are easy to discuss. But, I But I have to ask them two questions."
She looked at Kong Nan and said that she was asking but actually she was stating, "It was you who told Tian Hongjun that I went to Lingwu Forest to find eighteen kinds of elixirs. It was you who told Tian Yuchang that I lived in the Seven-Nine Cave Mansion in Qingzhu Peak. Because of you With these two pieces of news, I almost died twice.”
"We didn't mean it." Kong Li suddenly said, her expression was a little strange. She seemed not to refute Zhao Ning, but to convince herself, "It was Tian Hongjun who asked about the elixir when he was searching for the elixir in the central square. I and I Grandpa asked in a low voice why you were looking for the same medicinal materials as him, but Tian Hongjun accidentally overheard him. How did we know that he wanted to kill you! Besides, wasn't he killed by you in return? "
Zhao Ning looked at her and her face turned red. She didn't know whether it was from embarrassment or anger, but she heard her yell, "We haven't questioned you yet! Because you killed the second young master of the Tian family, and not long after, the eldest young master of the Tian family So we went to find grandpa, and he almost strangled him to death. In order to survive, why can't we protect ourselves wisely! We are the innocent ones!"
Kong Nan did not dare to deal with Zhao Ning directly, partly because he was injured in Tian Yuchang's hands.
"Xiao Li!" Kong Nan saw that something was wrong with Zhao Ning's expression, so he quickly protected Kong Li behind him, "Miss Zhao Ning, in the world of cultivation, many things happen out of one's control. I hope you can understand."
"Protect yourself wisely." Zhao Ning slowly repeated these two words.
Only then did she understand that Kong Nan and Kong Li were selfish in nature. They took the initiative to report the matter of the possessed cultivator to give themselves a sigh of relief. They took the initiative to mention the matter of Tianjiazhuang in order to protect themselves. Qin Keyuan was in No demonic thoughts can be found in this small courtyard because there are indeed no demonic thoughts here. The reason for unstable mood is because the mind is bad and the character is rotten.
"I gave you a chance. Ever since I came back alive from Lingwu Forest by chance, I have been waiting for you to explain in the cave, but I didn't want to wait until Tian Yuchang."
Her eyes were too cold, full of murderous intent.
"Xiao Li! Hide!" Kong Nan had no choice but to take action. He shook off the whisk, and the dim spiritual light fainted slightly at the tail of the whisk, forming a Tai Chi seal in front of him.
"Wind and residual clouds!"
In an instant, a strong wind surged out of the Tai Chi seal. The strong wind was mixed with countless wind blades, and the wind blades went straight towards Zhao Ning.
The strong wind stirred up dust, blurring the small courtyard, but what was strange was that Kong Nan and Kong Li did not see Zhao Ning cast any spells to resist.
"Oops!" Kong Nan didn't know what to do, so he dragged Kong Li, who was stunned, and ran to the backyard.
But I heard a cry of "Forbidden!" coming from the strong wind.
Before Kong Nan felt anything unusual, Kong Li couldn't move and fell heavily to the ground under Kong Nan's drag.
"Xiao Li!" Kong Nan yelled, looking up to see the wind and clouds disappearing, Zhao Ning standing on the spot without any damage, only the cloud silk breath-hiding cloak on his body flashed the last spiritual light.
"High-grade robes!"
The robe is also a spiritual weapon. The top grade is at least a treasure of the Foundation Establishment Realm. The robe is a defensive spiritual weapon. It is a high grade spiritual weapon that can withstand attacks at the Foundation Establishment Realm. It is impossible for them to escape from Zhao Ning today.
Kong Nan thought of that hexagram again. The hexagram was very ominous and his life was in danger. The road ahead was blood red, but there was a trace of life hidden.
Kong Nan originally thought that this glimmer of hope was a hint to him to leave earlier and that the situation would be resolved by leaving Guiyuan City, but now he could only make a last ditch effort.
He suddenly knelt on the ground. This octogenarian man was holding his stiff granddaughter.
"Thousands of mistakes are made, and they are all my fault. It was Tian Hongjun who answered me, and it was me who told Tian Yuchang the location of the cave to save his life. Everything has nothing to do with Xiaoli. If the girl wants revenge, take revenge on me!"
Kong Li was so frightened that his face turned pale. Hearing what his grandfather said, his body was so stiff that he couldn't say anything. He could only shake his eyes slightly, but he couldn't convey any words. In the end, he could only close his eyes and flow out. Two lines of tears of regret and remorse.
But I heard Zhao Ning say casually, "There can be no killing in Guiyuan City. I don't want to break the rules established by the four major sects."
Hearing this, Kong Nan was both surprised and happy. He raised his head and wanted to say thank you. However, before he could even say a word, a huge seal suddenly appeared in front of his eyes. Under the blood seal, he suddenly felt that his body was hurt. Controlling, a blood mark split open between the brows for no reason, a drop of blood was extracted, and then hit on the seal, causing a circle of blood to bloom immediately.
"This is..." Kong Nan seemed to realize something. He wanted to stop the seal from extracting Kong Li's essence and blood, but he couldn't move at all. It seemed that a voice restricted all his actions.
He looked at Zhao Ning in disbelief, "Blood... blood slave contract? Evil... evil way?"
The blood-colored seals dissipated between heaven and earth, and there seemed to be a bloody shackles that trapped the Kong family's grandfather and grandson.
This is the extremely evil palace secret method seen in Tai Ke's memory.
Zhao Ning withdrew his hand, his expression still calm, "The secret law has never been divided into good and evil, and the division between good and evil is always in the human heart. Under the blood slave contract, you will cultivate until this point in your life. In the future, if there is any betrayal, fraud, or disrespect for etiquette, law, and morality, If you don't follow the laws of the Great Dao, your soul will be shattered and your body will be shattered in an instant, you - just take care of yourself."
Life or death is all up to them in their own thoughts, cause and effect are cut off, and everything has nothing to do with Zhao Ning.
Zhao Ning returned to Kongzhao Mountain and planted the Blue Silver Moonflower in the garden of Jiling Mansion for a few days, and got a large bag of Moonflower seeds.
She picked up a hoe and took good care of the garden in the mangrove courtyard, planted the seeds of the moonflower, crushed a few spirit stones, and sprinkled the powder on the garden. Although it did not have the effect of the spirit gathering formation, , but it can also speed up seed growth to a small extent.
The flowering time of Yuelanghua is very short, it can grow into flower in three to six months, but the flowering period will last for more than three to six years.
After Zhao Ning finished planting the moonflowers, she returned to the house.
She sat on the couch in the main room, her consciousness sinking into the House of Silent Spirits, and practicing on the high platform of the main hall.
The initial stage of Qi training is from one to three levels. It is necessary to open nine orifices, use the Lingqiao points to breathe in spiritual energy, and combine your own essence and energy to condense spiritual power and open the nine orifices.
After Zhao Ning took Huang Tingguo, all the nine orifices were unblocked. Next, he only needed to communicate with the nine orifices to make the breath of the nine orifices flow through and form a cycle of his own. Then the four layers of Qi training were completed, and he could look inside himself.
This stage is the first small bottleneck in the Qi refining period. From the early stage of Qi refining to the middle stage of Qi refining, some people cannot cross it in their entire lives. Some people can be promoted to the fourth level of Qi refining in an instant if there is no barrier.
Zhao Ning's cultivation talent has never been excellent, and she never had the opportunity to be promoted instantly, but she was in a stable state of mind. She sorted out the spiritual power of the nine orifices over and over again, repeatedly condensed the spiritual energy, and laid a solid foundation. After four months, it came naturally, and she was successfully promoted to the fourth level of Qi training.
The practice in the middle stage of Qi training, from the fourth level to the sixth level of Qi training, is mainly used for physical exercise, which requires blood refining, bone forging, tendon refining, marrow cleansing, opening all the orifices, and opening the Dantian.
Therefore, in the secret transmission of the six spiritual sources of Taixu, there are three exercise diagrams in the middle stage of Qi training. The first two pictures are exactly the same as those on the third level of Qi training. The only difference is that there is an additional set of basic physical training techniques.
What surprised Zhao Ning was that this basic body-building technique mainly focused on whip techniques, including splitting, sweeping, piercing, slashing, pulling, intercepting, throwing, stabbing, and lifting. There were ten whip techniques to strengthen the body.
Since the Jinping Whip was broken, Zhao Ning has not used the long whip for more than a year. Fortunately, the basics of the long whip are still there, and he only needs to follow the basic physical training techniques to strengthen his body step by step.
Jinping Whip could no longer withstand too much spiritual power, so Zhao Ning used local materials and found a large-scale vine called Bi Fei Vine in Kongzhao Mountain.
As its name suggests, the green jade vine has a color like emerald. It is simple and curved, but the vine is thin but can bear the weight of a thousand kilograms.
Zhao Ning took ten jade vines and twisted them into a long whip. The main stem of the vine was used as the handle of the whip. Infused with spiritual power, he could throw the whip down with one swing. It could break rocks if it was light and crack the ground if it was heavy.
In the fourth level of Qi training, physical exercise is the main focus and cultivation is the supplement. Zhao Ning no longer meditates for long periods of time every day, but only practices for one to two hours in the quietest time in the morning, and exercises for three hours each during the day and night. The rest of the time he spent in the Yue Lang Garden, sleeping and resting.
One month later, one evening, Zhao Ning was practicing martial arts under the red leaf tree.
The jade whip is as light as a ribbon. Under the guidance of basic physical training techniques, it can be used as hard as you want. It strikes like a heavy knife, sweeps away like a fly whisk, pierces like a sharp cone, withdraws like a chain, and rises gently in the air, keeping pace with the pace. Dancing under the trees, there are many afterimages.
Unexpectedly, behind the eight ghost images, his body swayed slightly, and the long whip he drew in the air lost control, and it was possible to restrain himself.
"The soles of the feet are rooted, the wrists are stretched, and the whip is flexible."
Suddenly, twelve words came into Zhao Ning's ears. They were steady and deep, and extremely powerful. Zhao Ning followed the instructions of the twelve words, controlled her body shape, released her spiritual power, and whipped the whip three times around her like a spirit. The snake swam away, cutting through the air, dividing the fallen leaves flying in the air into longitude and latitude, and freezing for a moment.
The jade whip is withdrawn, and the red leaves fall naturally from the sky.
Zhao Ning looked at the bluestone platform. Qin Keyuan was standing there with his hands folded, as if he had been watching her practice for a long time.
"Senior Qin."
Zhao Ning's face was filled with joy, she lifted her skirt and came closer, stopped under the bluestone platform, and bowed respectfully to Qin Keyuan.
Living in Kongzhao Mountain, he has turned sixty in a flash. This is the first time Qin Keyuan comes to visit.
Qin Keyuan nodded and praised her, "My cultivation has progressed rapidly. I think it has been very hard to recruit Miss Ning in the past six months."
"It's all the effect of Huang Tingdan. Zhao Ning doesn't dare to bear the word "hard work." Zhao Ning looked up at him, blinked and asked, "Senior Qin, has the matter within the sect been resolved?"
"There will never be a day when all the affairs of the sect will be solved." Qin Keyuan sat down on the stone bench, "It is true that the affairs of the Danling Sect have achieved some results."
Zhao Ning stepped onto the bluestone platform in a few steps and was a little surprised, "Zhao Ning went to Guiyuan City once and heard from Senior Wu of the Luoxia Sect that several sects had different opinions on the matter of Danling Sect, and they separated themselves from each other, and there was no game for a few years. Time cannot tell.”
She poured tea for Qin Keyuan as she spoke, "Senior Wu also said that if they win, the names of the four major sects of Danling Sect will not be guaranteed. This sounds particularly serious."
Qin Keyuan slowly sipped the tea. He seemed to be very fond of tea, and he tasted it every time he drank it.
"Wu Hanhai has always been a talkative person." Qin Keyuan commented noncommittally, and after drinking a cup of tea, he said, "It did take a few years, but now the situation in Kunxu has changed drastically, and there are people who have been coveting the positions of the four major sects for a long time. , Dan Ling had to give in."
Zhao Ning pursed her lips. She sounded a little confused when it came to the general situation.
Qin Keyuan didn't care, and looked at the chess pattern on the stone table, "Can we play chess?"
Zhao Ning said frankly, “I have only seen old men playing chess under a tree and know the basic rules, but I have never tried it myself.”
"It's okay." Qin Keyuan pointed to the opposite side, "I will teach you."
Each of the diagonal stars has two stones, Zhao Ning takes the white stone first, and Qin Keyuan responds with the black stone. There is no sense of pressing forward step by step, but the guidance of one stone leading another.
"There are 37 million mountains in the Kunxu cultivation world, 300 large spiritual veins, 5,000 medium spiritual veins, and nearly a hundred known secret realms. The four major sects are divided into 70%, and the rest is divided among 800 small and medium sects. The door and the Sanxiu Alliance."
Hearing what Qin Keyuan said, Zhao Ningluozi almost trembled. He didn't understand but tried to explain, "Divided by strength?"
"Not entirely." Unexpectedly, Qin Keyuan denied it vaguely. He dropped one piece and captured Zhao Ning's several white pieces. Zhao Ning couldn't understand the chess game, so why was he blocked by Qin Keyuan, "Although the pieces have their own ways, they have their own way. Success or failure is based on holism, this is the rule.”
The word "rules" is quite strong. It is a response to the chess game, but it is also a response to Zhao Ning's problem.
"The world of cultivation focuses on high-grade golden elixirs. If you want to achieve high-grade golden elixirs, you can only use the skills above Yuanshen. In the entire Kunxu world of cultivation, there are only four major sects and twelve small sects. The skills are only the prerequisite. Only if the mind, understanding, understanding, and opportunities are all excellent can you have the opportunity to form a high-grade golden elixir. This is an ancient Taoist practice, but the spiritual root path is different. Generally speaking, it does not affect it, so the spiritual root path is emphasized and the ancient path is neglected."
Zhao Ning had heard a rough discussion before, and still had the same question to this day, "Why?"
Why do you value high-grade golden elixirs and even abandon ancient traditions that have been passed down for tens of thousands of years?
"I don't know."
Qin Keyuan answered calmly.
"It's been like this since tens of thousands of years ago."
Qin Keyuan made a move, and the back-and-forth situation in the chess game changed instantly.
